If I Could Be Anywhere

If I could be anywhere on this Halloween night, instead of sitting here putting off homework and guiltily eating Halloween candy I would be six years old again. It would be Halloween night and my mom would be getting my sister and I dressed in our poodle skirts and putting curlers in our short, thin hair. My dad would be down stairs getting the video recorder ready for Morgan and I's grand entrance. Poodle skirts on, white Keds laced up and curly pony tail we would be bouncing off the walls with energy.

I don't know why this is what I remember tonight. Maybe because Halloween growing up was such a fun night for our family. My sister and I racing from one house to the next with my mom wanting to take pictures everywhere and my dad video tapping along the way. We would get back to the house and sort our candy into categories and of course eating along the way. For the next month we would have halloween candy in our lunch as dessert.

I find myself wanting this night back so badly. I want that sweet innocent feeling of being a six year old sock hop girl for Halloween with my kid sister being the same thing. I want to get excited over getting candy from neighbors and taking pictures in front of our carved pumpkins. I want that beautiful feeling I felt when my dad told my sister and I how pretty we looked in our skirts. I want the feeling of twirling around in circles with my skirt fanned out and thinking I was invincible of anything in the world.

Hmm how sweet to be six years old again and twirling in circles without a care in the world.